A downtown street in Lima, with its mixture of architectural design styles.
Lima, Peru
Cusco, Peru
A steep, one-way, cobbled street. See the tourist looking up at all the steps he has to climb with his luggage.
Rural Peru.
Two Peruvian children shepherding a flock of sheep and llamas in a rocky, barren landscape.
Rural Peru
A Peruvian family guiding a herd of sheep and llamas along a dirt road in a mountainous, dry, rocky landscape.
Rural Peru between Cusco and Manu National Park.
A small family farm in a rocky, mountainous region. The buildings are made with earthen blocks.
Paucartambo, Peru
The picturesque colonial Carlos Tercero bridge, built in 1775, spanning the Mapacho River in the town of Paucartambo, in the Cusco region in southern Peru.
An Andean cock-of-the-rock (Latin: Rupicola peruvianus), with brilliant red-orange plumage, sitting in its natural habitat in the Peruvian rainforest. It is the national bird of Peru.
Peru.
A group of adult neotropic cormorants (Phalacrocorax brasilianus, a freshwater species) perched on a tree branch in an oxbow lake, with wings spread, drying their plumage.
Cocha Salvador Lake, Manu National Park, Peru.
Cocha Blanco, Manu National Park, Peru
A misty morning in Peru. Tourists on a wooden viewing platform, being paddled by guides in dugout canoes.
Three Peruvian women dressed in colorful traditional clothing and holding cute lambs and a baby, standing on a sidewalk in Cusco, waiting for tourists to pay for photographing them.
Chicha, the traditional fermented Andean drink made from maize, being poured by a Peruvian woman in a chicha tavern known as a chicheria.
Urubamba, Peru
Machu Picchu, surrounded by cloud and mist, shot from the Sun Gate.
Machu Picchu, Peru
Machu Picchu, Peru.
The iconic Machu Picchu stone ruins and Huayna Picchu mountain.
A close-up view of the ruins and vibrant green terraces at the base of Huayna Picchu mountain